Panasonic CF-41 Laptop RARE! 1st Laptop With CDROM! Excellent Shape WIN 95 Wow!

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Panasonic CF-41 Laptop RARE! 1st Laptop With CDROM! Excellent Shape WIN 95 Wow!. Shipped with USPS Priority Mail.
This particular model is the first of 3 models made, MK1 with a 486DX2, 50MHz processor with a max capacity 24MB ram and 640MB HDD and a 640×480 10.4” TFT Display.
It’s complete and in museum quality/condition with no major blemishes or operational flaws. It also has a battery which is untested but does not seem to hold a charge.
Released in 1995, the INITIAL PRICE: .700, that’s equivalent to .683 in today’s money!!!!
The Panasonic CF41 is considered to be the world’s first notebook PC to integrate a CD-ROM drive, the first computing product to utilize magnesium alloy chassis for strength and durability. The CF-41 was to be the first in a long line of Toughbooks that would revolutionize field work as we knew it.
This was the very first model of the Panasonic CF-XX series, released back in March 1995. It was not marketed with the name “Toughbook” at that time, and although dismissed by Toughbook enthusiasts as not being worthy of the Toughbook name due to having no handle and lacking robust features that the CF-25 has, it is technically the first model released in the Toughbook line of laptops, also marketed under the “Panasonic Pronote AV” name in Japan.
It was on the market until the October 1996 and was built in 3 models that had improved specifications over time; the CF-41 Mk1, the CF-41 Mk2 and the CF-41 Mk3. The range of processors fitted ranged from the 486DX2 up to the Pentium 120. The included memory ranged from 4MB up to 16MB with an expandability up to 32MB for some models. All models featured ESS soundcard audio, a quad speed CD drive, 1.4MB 3 1/2 inch floppy drive and 2 PCMCIA slots. The screens on most of the models are 640×480 TFT modules, with the very early models offering 640×480 STN modules and some of the later MK3 models offering 800×600 TFT modules. The installed 2.5 inch hard drives ranged from 260MB up to 1.35GB. A unique feature of the CF-41 is that the CD drive is accessed by lifting the keyboard.